The Federal Trade Commission's annual numbers are out for consumer fraud and identity theft complaints for 2006, and Missouri is, well, right in the middle. We ranked #23 in consumer fraud complaints per capita and #21 for ID theft complaints. The FTC showed 7,331 fraud complaints and 3,753 ID theft complaint.

Some of those people may have filed complaints with our office as well - we got about 40,000 formal complaints from consumers last year - that includes ID theft. In the FTC report, linked above, notice they also compiled their Top 16 complaint categories. If you're curious, you can compare it to our Top 10 list.

The FTC also ranks complaints by metro areas. Not much of interest for Missouri or the Midwest - although Jefferson City ranked 49th in the nation for consumer fraud complaints.